Development on the registry is picking up
pace, after three years of neglection. pcg
has some interesting ideas regarding XML description of the
plug-ins. It will take a little longer to implement, but
make for a very cool update interface

The move to XML is also looking good because
neo indicated that in GIMP 2.0,
some of the
plug-in interface might be XML based. Nothing certain for
now, but looks promising.

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New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser
code is live. It needs further work but already handles most
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